Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Amendment
2, which would have protected patients and doctors from prosecution for
using/recommending medical marijuana for serious medical conditions, has failed
though it garnered a solid majority of votes. Covered conditions would have included
cancer, AIDS, Crohn’s Disease, Parkinson’s "or other conditions for which
a physician believes that the medical use of marijuana would likely outweigh
the potential health risks for a patient," but would not have allowed
patients to operate a motor vehicle under the influence, consume marijuana in
public or on the job and would not have required insurers to pay for the
treatment. Unfortunately, because the initiative was for a constitutional
amendment, it needed 60% to pass and looks like it will fall just short of that
number.